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Season #101 of the National Hockey League will have Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins gunning for a three peat.
Also, the Vegas Golden Knights will make their debut as the 31st team in the NHL.
The NHL will continue their outdoor NHL game traditions and will also have the 2017 SAP NHL Global Series inside Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden in November.
https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-global-series-features-colorado-ottawa/c-287971368
Finally, this thread will provide AHL Calder...

Will the Golden State Warriors successfully repeat as NBA World champions? The Dubs are gunning for their third title in the last four years.
Will LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers continue to be the team to beat in the East?
Also in this thread, there will be some talk of 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification which starts in August in Europe followed by all FIBA confederations in late November.

While the Yankees have off, YES will show Florida State at Louisville in Women's Soccer at 7:00 P.M. (two overtimes can be played, and if the games are tied after the second overtime, they end tied, so if you want to DVR it, DVR longer than 2 hours). Florida State has Deyna Castellanos, who is one of ten nominees for The Best FIFA Women's Player Award. You can read about her at...

If you're a huge mixed martial arts fan in the UFC, Pride FC, or other MMA competitions, you can discuss MMA here in this thread.
For UFC fans, you can catch UFC action and shows on Spike TV. For Pride FC fans, you can watch PRIDE on your cable box only on Fox Sports Net, or simply FSN.
I'm a huge fan of both UFC and PRIDE. :2thumbs: :)

Hate to be a wet noodle but I have very low hopes for this season.
Let's see, they didn't buy out Girardi, didn't trade Glass, Staal, Nash, or anyone at the draft, didn't sign any free agents, didn't have a 1st or 2nd round pick in the draft, and everyone is a year older.
So, lets go Rangers?

Less than a year after World Cup 2014, qualifying for World Cup 2018 begins for some countries in Asia (AFC) and North and Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF) in March. On Thursday January 15, CONCACAF did the draw for the first two rounds of qualifying and here are the results:
Round 1:
1. Bermuda vs. Bahamas
2. British Virgin Islands vs. Dominica
3. Barbados vs. U.S. Virgin Islands
4. Turks and Caicos Islands vs. St. Kitts and Nevis
5. Nicaragua vs. Anguilla
6. Belize vs....

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And he stopped to pose for pictures with all the smiling jurors after being acquitted
Now play ball!!...

There's a topic for the World Cup. I decided to start a topic for clubs. You can post about clubs from any country in any competition (domestic or a champions league), players changing clubs, and when matchups are made for a tournament. Every club in the 2017-2018 UEFA Champions League and its qualifying rounds is known except for the Polish champion, who will be decided on Sunday. The Group Stage will have 32 clubs. 10 of them come from qualifying rounds, and the 22 known clubs are:
...

NBA Season #71 is upon us.
From the opening tip on October 25, 2016 to the last possible NBA Finals date on June 18, 2017, it should be another exciting NBA season.
Fresh off bringing Cleveland their first major pro league sports title in 52 years, will the Cleveland Cavaliers repeat as NBA champions?
Will the Golden State Warriors bounce back to win the NBA title to overcome their 2016 NBA Finals collapse?
Stay tuned.

Will the Pittsburgh Penguins repeat as NHL Stanley Cup champions? Will the San Jose Sharks return to the Stanley Cup Finals?
Who will be the two teams that will contest in the 2017 Stanley Cup Final?
Another NHL season and a World Cup of Hockey tournament will be exciting.

After our big knockout blow to the wildcats last year, I am so looking forward to this season in Indiana basketball. And with a big game vs Kansas tonight, I will see just how good this current team will or won't be. Looking for a big year out of OG Anunoby and hopefully he can lead them team into a strong March Madness run. And as always, a big FU to the kentucky wildcats.